Edith Edmunds, 99, sits contentedly in the sewing room of her Halifax home on a Thursday morning sewing together the ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.

Bader-King is the executive director of the Wornall/Majors House Museums, a three-person nonprofit that manages the two Civil ...

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s planning ministry on Monday released the official results of the country’s first nationwide census since 1987, revealing a nearly equal gender distribution and ...

He made two more slaving voyages before the U.S. Navy finally caught him, in 1860. Even then, he likely expected to go free. Although the international slave trade had been illegal for decades ...

When Dionne Babineaux began combing through the “Slave Narratives” compiled in ... Some of Agatha’s 12 children were recorded in census data — some of her sons' names showing up in ...

The Springfield (Ill.) Journal says: "The fugitive slave, EDGAR CANTON, who left this city for St. Louis on Monday morning, accompanied by Deputy United States Marshal CRAFTON, and three or four ...

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